Abstract

This Governance Standard and Assessment Framework is an outcome from the Land & Water Australiafunded project Pathways to good practice in regional NRM governance. This interdisciplinary andcollaborative project was conceived to assess the effectiveness of regional NRM governance and to developa standard for good-practice NRM governance. The developmental work focussed on nine regions, locatedin: Tasmania (Cradle Coast, South), Victoria (Corangamite, North Central, Goulburn-Broken) and NSW(Central West, Murray, Lachlan, Northern Rivers), as well as the state jurisdictions of NSW, Victoria andTasmania and the national level.